Season 1 · Episode 1
Joel wrecks an 18-wheeler during a winter build in Ontario, Beat and André sell a thousand year old tree to an eccentric Arkansas millionaire, and Peter pushes Bryan Jr. to the breaking point in a fight for new equipment.
Beat’s Arkansas house build is in trouble when delivery trucks arrive out of order, Bryan Jr. remodels a local bar for a penny-pinching friend, and Peter turns inventor to solve a work yard problem.
Bryan Jr. takes his son to Missouri and they manage to assemble a house despite themselves, Beat builds a Western-style saloon for a meatball millionaire and his racecar-driving girlfriend, while Peter and Joel make a smelly bet.
Beat delivers a home in Utah to a frugal client who wants to do everything for himself, André and Joel build competing chicken coop mansions, while André covets a magazine cover story.
Peter goes to Scotland and discovers that his boss Bryan Sr. has followed, Beat and André face a client with buyer’s remorse, while Joel agrees to build an elaborate doghouse and birdhouse, all for a slice of cake.
Joel builds an enormous house in the wilderness for a millionaire client he’s never met, Bryan Sr. promises to make log furniture and Beat must deliver, while Peter plays the role of a lifetime, all in the name of workplace safety.
Beat’s schedule is thrown by German customs and there’s only one way to catch up, Bryan Sr. takes Peter to the wilderness and they harvest 200-foot trees, while Bryan Jr. wheels-and-deals free billboard space for his fishing lodge.
Beat sets logs in the pouring Arkansas rain for a client who orders renovations on the fly, a Catholic priest convinces Bryan Sr. and Peter to build a wedding gazebo for free, while André and Joel take a float plane to the island of Haida...
André the GM and master salesman must go to Ontario and lead his first build in more than 10 years, Beat has to collaborate in carving a hairy friend, and Peter is willing to do whatever it takes to get a vacation out of Bryan Jr.
Kevin McCloud follows an innovative community-led regeneration scheme in Castleford.
2008
Architect George teams up with garden designer Luke Millard to offer people two design solutions - one for the kitchen and one for the outside - before the homeowners' decide how much of their budget to allocate to each improvement.
2025
Presenter Rob Bell takes us on a voyage around Britain and Ireland to reveal the hidden secrets that make offshore lighthouses such extraordinary feats of engineering.
2020
No description available.
2022
National Geographic Channel goes off the map to kick off its first do-it-yourself series, Building Wild. Paulie, as he is known, has partnered with woodsman and master fabricator Pat "Tuffy" Bakaitis on a cabin design and construction business called Cabin Kings. These "Cabin Kings" are construction's odd couple: Paulie is a city boy at heart and Tuffy is a gruff, logical woodsman who has never heard of Starbucks. But together, this duo creates unbelievable wilderness getaways, transforming discarded materials into fabulous contraptions and overcoming outrageous building challenges along the way.
2014
A factual, fast paced, adrenalin-driven show featuring the biggest, strangest, and most jaw-dropping mishaps from the world of construction.
HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.
1993
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
2003
What does it take to construct a Viking longboat or a stone tower like those that dotted the landscape of Medieval Europe? THE BIG BUILD looks to the past for challenges and tackles the ultimate “how to” projects. Host and contractor Nick Mystrom enlists experts from some of construction’s most esoteric fields as he puts his hands on history.
2005
How do you build a medieval castle from scratch? Domestic historian Ruth Goodman and archeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold make perhaps their most ambitious foray into the past as they head to France to take part in a build that has been underway since 1997. Our intrepid history adventurers join this magnificent construction at Guédelon Castle to recreate authentic medieval castle living from within its rising walls.
Guy Martin is on a mission to learn about the UK construction skills shortage. Meeting the grafters of the future, Guy will try his hand at the specialist skills that helped build Britain.
2018
2023
2024
With the help of a team of experts and friends, two families compete to design, construct and decorate brand new homes over the course of just ten weeks.
2009